Posted August 22, 201113 yr Hi all, I really want to go to a few home games this season (usually just go to the occasional away game, and often not in the Chelsea area due to lack of tickets! :@) but was wondering what the best way of getting a pair of tickets are? Preferably in the Shed lower or MHL for atmosphere reasons, but to be honest in my position I can't be fussy I guess! I know I probably should just become a club member, but that'll be around £70 for the two of us, and sadly I'm not sure we'd be able to go to enough games to justify that. Cheers
August 22, 201113 yr Author Quick bump, anyone, please? Tempted to become a member, but if I do that, would I need two memberships? Or could I buy two tickets for lesser games on one membership? Really not fussed on the level of matches we go to by the way, just I've only been to SB maybe 4/5 times now and want to double that over the next season or so :-)
August 22, 201113 yr Blize - get a membership - bottom price one is £25 I think - They just emailed me to say that members can buy up to three tickets for Swansea - a lot of the lower profile games get to that stage - Also, as a member you can buy from Viagogo at face value - sometimes there are pairs of tickets on there. failing that, with a single membership you can be nice to members in here and see if you can make them friends and family - then you can buy two tickets next to each other at the same time as soon as they go on members sale. Oh, and if you pay an extra £5 you get CTV Online included this year. With all that that provides
August 22, 201113 yr Author That's great, many thanks yorkley! Will get on it and sort a membership then, probably pay for the CTV package too, since I sometimes get that through Sky, so would pay for itself then :-) Failing that, with a single membership you can be nice to members in here and see if you can make them friends and family - then you can buy two tickets next to each other at the same time as soon as they go on members sale Please pardon my stupidity, but could you please elaborate on this?
August 22, 201113 yr When you have a membership, you can nominate other members as friends or family - sorta make a link between your membership and theirs. Then, as long as you have their details, when you try to buy tickets, you buy one on your membership and one on theirs. Simples :) It's probably simpler to understand once you have a membership. Then, if you have any mates in the forum, get their details and, if they don't want to buy tickets, you link to their membership and buy the two you want. The only thing to be wary of is that you HAVE to behave yourself at the ground, otherwise it comes back on the other member, and you don't really want that :) I just looked on Viagogo, and, for Norwich, for instance, there are 7 pages of tickets for sale. These are season ticket holders who can't make the game - If you are a member you can buy through there, and collect from the ground - you don't need two memberships, I think for that. Lots of those tickets are in pairs in the MH stand - there's a pair in the MHL right behind the goal in row A, seats 77 and 78 for £47 each :) Have a look at http://www.viagogo.co.uk/chelseafc/Chelsea-Tickets/E-359205 have fun Kev
August 22, 201113 yr Author Ah you're a star, thank you Kev! I really like the idea of that, and would definitely be well behaved - hopefully when I become a member someone from here wouldn't mind doing the friends and family thing (I'd only go to a handful of games, so I'd have a lot of spares too!) ViaGoGo looks good too, it's a nice idea that you can buy other member's tickets like that, quite surprised by the prices though, £47 per ticket for Norwhich?! O_o Surprises me people can afford that so easily, week in, week out!
August 24, 201113 yr Author Christ, just realised on ViaGoGo it adds additional fees taking it up to around £130 for just the two of us! O_o Also, it says on there you cannot order two tickets without two memberships. Sadly, I wish I hadn't spent that £25 on the mebership now. Don't see how people can so easily justify to spend these sorts of prices.
August 24, 201113 yr You can buy 2 or three tickets for Swansea - the club have just emailed me to tell me. I never heard of Viagogo adding that much - I paid £1.50 booking fee each time I used them. Perhaps they've changed it this year. - £47 will be the price - East and West Stand are even more - we rarely charge different prices for different teams - the cups and CL group stages are sometimes cheaper - I think Carling Cup is normally £25 a ticket. And......whereabout in the big city are you? The CFC store in Kingston sells tickets too!
August 24, 201113 yr Author I live in Gloucestershire (heyyo!) so won't be able to get tickets from London unfortunately And thanks for the heads up on prices, but nope, when I add two tickets for the Norwhich game the price goes from £47 each to a grand total of £118 including fees, handling and VAT. That's for Norwhich!! And even then, I won't be able to get the two tickets cos I only have a single membership. Sorry to moan, but bloody hell! I've been to many away games and paid about £25 tops each time per ticket, and also found the tickets a lot easier to come by too. Not to mention even the coach trips I usually go on are cheaper, including transport than £118 for two people :o
August 24, 201113 yr Sorry, mate, I thought you'd moved up to the big city (Not Lydney!) That does seem like a sh*tload of a markup on the Naaaarch tickets. And I'm sorry if I misled you about Viagogo - the last time I used them I bought two tickets on a single membership - that was teh season before last, though. HAve a go for the Swansea ones later in September, available through the club. Also sign up for the email ticket notifications from the club (I think it's one of your account settings for your membership) - Then they email you when tickets go on sale and when you can get more. I don't know how them coach people down Chepstow get tickets so cheaply or so easily, nor how they can do the package from the price they do.
August 25, 201113 yr Author Haha! Quedgeley, not Lydney! But it's funny you mention that since my mate at work just walked in who lives there :-) And please don't be silly, there was no misleading involved - you're just helping me get some of these elusive Chelsea tickets I've been after for bloody ages now! Will definitely go for the Swansea ones I think, seems like a perfect match to go to, and the return of Brendan and Scott to the bridge! ;) Yeah the Chepstow bus tour things they do are usually quite good, but the guy is a scouser so they almost exclusively do Liverpool trips now - my mate's been all over Europe with them!
September 5, 201113 yr Author Best place to sit for atmosphere? Matthew Harding Lower (West) Matthew Harding Lower (East) Shed Lower One of those I guess? :o
September 5, 201113 yr Quick bump, anyone please? Going to order some tickets now :o I personally think MH Lower is the best these days. I think I sat in MH Lower West for Arsenal last year but I remember MH Lower East being slightly better for atmosphere. Shed is great when we play a derby though or against another one of the big teams. Edited September 5, 201113 yr by Myles_91
September 5, 201113 yr Author Ah that's great, thank you! I shall try for MHL East and see if I can get a ticket then, thank you very much Myles!
September 5, 201113 yr Author Woooot! Two tickets booked for the Leverkusen game... MHL East, seats L95 & L96 - looking forward to it :D
September 7, 201113 yr Author Quick question - if I buy two tickets on one membership @ 5 loyalty points each, should I get 5 or 10 loyalty points? :o Cos I only got 5.
